(, locally , literally "black earth" in ) is a type of very dark, fertile found in the . Terra preta owes its name to its very high content, and was made by adding a mixture of charcoal, bone, and manure to the otherwise relatively infertile Amazo...

Last week, when we showed you those crazy photos from the ongoing project to re-create the world of Game of Thrones in Minecraft, people had a ton of questions. For one, how the hell did they make it look so good?

The (also known as the , or by analogy to the ) may cause some to fail at some point near the year . The problem affects all software and systems that both store as a , and interpret this number as the number of seconds since 00:00:00 on Thursda...

As we speak, broadcast signals are moving invisibly through the air all around you, from millions of sources. And some of them are really, really freaking weird. Where do these signals come from? Who the hell knows?

The student computer lab at my University was full of 4-year old Acer Veriton PCs, until they were replaced over the Xmas break with new Dells.
So first day of term a student rushes up to the helpdesk desperate to know where the old computers were. ...

You were on your way home when you died. It was a car accident. Nothing particularly remarkable, but fatal nonetheless. You left behind a wife and two children. It was a painless death. The EMTs tried their best to save you, but to no avail. Your b...

What does it take to come up with an epic and unbeatable Sci-fi Artworks? When it comes to science fiction, it should bombard your eyes with extremely sublime and striking graphic, grabbing your attention within milliseconds but that alone can't dete...

You have two cows. You sell three of them to your publicly listed
company, using letters of credit opened by your brother-in-law at the bank,
then execute a debt/equity swap with an associated general offer so that
you get all four cows back,...

Mount Suribachi overlooks the landing beaches During the battle for Iwo Jima, Mt Suribachi gave the defending Japanese forces a perfect vantage point from which to direct lethal artillery fire on the Marines hastily dug positions on the beach

Author : Bob Newbell
Ship's log, Cycle 6944, Subcycle 3, Captain Zeus commanding. The Olympia's A.I. has performed an emergency biometamorphosis on the crew who were all in stasis at the time of the transrelativistic drive malfunction.Read more...

The () is a that was carried into orbit by a in 1990 and remains in operation. A 2.4-metre (7.9 ft) aperture telescope in , Hubble's four main instruments observe in the near ultraviolet, visible, and near infrared. The telescope is named after th...

I saw this video on earlier and simply had to share: one guy at Belated Media shares his way of fixing Star Wars: The Phantom Menace. He makes a fair amount of tweaks to the story - some minor and silly, others incredibly astute. But he shares the o...

The Mariana Trench is the deepest part of the Earth's ocean and is also the lowest point on the Earth's crust. It is estimated to be 10,971 m (35,994 ft) deep and is located in the western Pacific Ocean. It reaches a ...

A shadowy private security company that has no known clients but claims to have helped foreign governments combat terrorism and will protect anything from cruise ships to Pakistani convoys has taken over a jail in a small Montana town, with plans to ...

We've been tracking Chivalry for a while now, mostly because there's a chance it may actually get first-person melee combat right. Something no game in history has really managed. This new trailer explains a little more how the game's (well, mod...th...